International: Festival of Youth

To Prague journeyed 30,000 young people of all nations for a "World
Festival of Democratic Youth." They had come to "play and work and
learn together." They put on dramas, danced folk dances before
bonfires. But they were a singularly youth-less lot, for they had a
serious task in Praguethe revival (in disguise) of the Young
Communist International.

Communism & the Bobby-Soxers. The youth of the world, for which the
30,000 claimed to speak, had suffered deeply. The war had twisted many
lives into bizarre shapes of precocious tragedy. For children's toys
war had brought Tommy guns, for adolescent fancies bitter...